NFI Expands Class 8 Electric Truck Fleet in Southern California Through the JETSI Project
4/12/2023
NFI will deploy and operate 30 electric Freightliner eCascadia and 20 Volvo VNR Electric trucks from its Ontario warehouse facility to support its dedicated port drayage services.
NFI has taken delivery of the first 15 of its Class 8 BETs funded through the project, with the remaining ordered trucks set to be delivered by the end of June 2023.
Bill Bliem and Jim O’Leary of NFI's fleet procurement team are pictured along with some of the company’s battery-electric truck drivers and maintenance technicians in Southern California.
NFI, one of the nation’s oldest and largest third-party supply chain solutions providers, is expanding its fleet of Class 8 battery-electric trucks (BETs) in Southern California as part of the Joint Electric Truck Scaling Initiative (JETSI) project. Under the project, which is designed to show that fleets can successfully scale their BET fleets, NFI will deploy and operate 30 electric Freightliner eCascadias and 20 Volvo VNR Electric trucks from its Ontario, California, warehouse facility to support its dedicated port drayage services for customers spanning from manufacturing to retail. NFI has taken delivery of the first 15 of its Class 8 BETs funded through the project, with the remaining ordered trucks set to be delivered by the end of June 2023. Read full release.
